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  IN PICTURES: Kickstart-ing 2013 with a boogie
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  The recent history of governments vs. the Internet

• T-Mobile drops challenge to FCC's net neutrality rules

  By Grant Gross | 17 May, 2013 20:02

  T-Mobile USA has dropped a pending challenge to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

• Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges

  By Grant Gross | 17 May, 2013 18:28

  Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

• Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers

  By Grant Gross | 16 May, 2013 21:05

  The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday.

• NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

  By Grant Gross | 16 May, 2013 16:55

  E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

• German online copyright law to take effect in August

  By Loek Essers | 16 May, 2013 09:43

  A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1.

• EU to investigate telecommunications equipment imports from China

  By Michael Kan | 16 May, 2013 03:57

  The European Union is preparing to investigate the imports of mobile networking gear from China for anti-competitive practices, a move that's likely targeted at telecommunications equipment companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE.

• Mt. Gox accused of violating US money transfer regulations

  By Jeremy Kirk | 16 May, 2013 02:08

  The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document.

• Specter of ACTA hangs over TTIP negotiations

  By Jennifer Baker | 15 May, 2013 17:03

  European civil liberties representatives on Wednesday advised the European Commission's trade department that the intellectual property chapter should be left out of the current trade negotiations with the United States and that the deal should not be agreed in secret.

• Best in class

  By Brian Corrigan | 23 July, 2008 12:07

  What are the differences and similarities between the role of a CIO within a large corporate and a state education department?

• Supply chain 2013: Stop playing whack-a-mole with security threats

  By Howard Baldwin | 30 April, 2013 10:45

  IT can never take all the risk out of a supply chain, but it can help organizations minimize their vulnerability in a world of new threats.

• Internet taxes: Is the inevitable about to happen?

  By Scott Bradner | 29 April, 2013 21:06

  Some things never happen the way that us pundits expect. Back on Independence Day in 1999 I wrote this about government taxing the purchase of goods over the Internet: "I fully believe in the ingenuity of the government when it comes to imposing taxes. We will be paying these taxes soon." Well, "soon" has not happened yet, but maybe it is getting closer.

• Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)

  By Dan Tynan | 22 April, 2013 10:05

  Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun

• In online sales tax debate, $1M business is 'mom and pop'

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 22 March, 2013 10:07

  As Congress considers a law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes nationally, debate is heating up over the revenue threshold for triggering collections.

• Security concerns bedevil Chinese outsourcing

  By Jaikumar Vijayan, Patrick Thibodeau | 11 March, 2013 10:19

  China's plan to create a competitive outsourcing industry was hit with another blow last month with the release of a report that lay bare, in ways never seen before, the extent of the security risks of working in the country.

• Who ratted out Microsoft on browser ballot absence?

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 March, 2013 20:42

  No Microsoft browser rival would comment on, much less confirm, that it reported the omission of the browser ballot to European antitrust regulators -- an omission that led to a $732 million fine this week against Microsoft.

• Top users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, Computerworld study finds

  By Patrick Thibodeau, Sharon Machlis | 25 February, 2013 11:18

  The biggest users of H-1B visas are offshore outsourcers, many based in India, or U.S.-based companies whose employees are mostly located overseas, according to government data obtained and analyzed by Computerworld.

• Unseen, all-out cyber war on the US has begun

  By Bob Violino | 28 January, 2013 11:09

  Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet